Blizzard Accidentally Leaks Overwatch's Halloween Event Skins Early

For once the Xbox store isn’t to blame for Overwatch event skins leaking early. This time, it’s actually Blizzard themselves who have made the slip-up, unveiling a number of legendary skins for next week’s Halloween event before they were supposed to be officially debuted.

The leak comes in the form of Facebook ads, which have images that show off four Halloween skins for different champions. They’re sponsored posts that showed up in people’s newsfeeds, and though I think most have been taken down now, everyone naturally grabbed screenshots as soon as they saw them. The official OverwatchFacebook page does not have any of these skins uploaded, so this was definitely not an official, under-the-radar reveal. Just an ad campaign that launched too early.

I’m guessing the official reveal will be soon enough, but until then, you can see these skins for yourself here:

Demon Symmetra

That’s the one seen above. Symmetra has not gotten a terribly large amount of love recently, so it’s nice to see her with a pretty badass skin this time around. Last Halloween she got an epic-rarity, kind of half-assed vampire skin, but this time, she may have one of the best skins of the entire event, if these early pictures are any indication.

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C’thulhu Zenyatta

Just kidding, this is clearly the best skin of the event. I can’t explain just how much I love the concept of C’thulhu Zenyatta (or is it C’thun, since we’re in a Blizzard universe?) but this is just fantastic and I must have this by the time the event is done. Or by the time I open 100 loot boxes on day one, which is the more likely scenario.

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Jiangshi Mei

This one I had to look up, as I assumed it was some Chinese reference I didn’t understand, and I was right. Mei is dressed up like a Jiangshi, or a “Chinese hopping zombie” which is a folklore character that appears in Qing Dynasty garments and moves by hopping around. It is not a vampire, despite the fangs. Anyway I’m sure China will love it.

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??? Reaper

This one, I’m stumped. The only references that are maybe coming through from this design are either some sort of Predator homage, or possibly a modified Jason Voorhees-like hockey mask. This looks more like an epic skin than a legendary one to be honest, and at least from this angle, it’s a bit underwhelming.

So far, it’s only these four that have leaked, but there may be more to come, so stay tuned for that. I love the first two, can take or leave the last two, but I’m guessing there’s a lot more still to be unveiled. Expect that to happen in the next day or two, if this event starts up on the 10th.